World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Summary of Peoples' Global Action meeting, India, 7-10 October 2005

23-10-2005 16:30 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Around 50 people from different countries (India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Germany, Greece, Spain, UK, Ukraine/USA) met in Haridwar for a preparatory consultation meeting prior to the 4th Global Conference of PGA.

SHOOT TO KILL MADNESS AND DRACONIAN LAWS

23-10-2005 06:50 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"If the [police] are armed with one of these [orders] ... and if this person attempts to flee the arrest, he can be shot and fatally shot ... The police might knock on the door and [the person] might leg it out the back door without even being told why the police are there, and under these provisions they can be called on to stop and if they don't stop, they can be shot."

SINGAPORE TO EXECUTE AUSTRALIAN MAN SOON

22-10-2005 01:19 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

ACADP is appalled and shocked by the news, and expresses deepest sympathy to Van's mother and twin brother - the innocent victims of the Singapore justice system.

Terrorism Communism – McCarthyism or Reality

Analysts and historians would recall the last time ’bogeyman’ hysteria gripped an unwary public; USA of the nineteen fifties and McCarthyism with the ‘red under the bed threat’ is now one of history's embarrassing moments. Joe McCarthy, puppet of ultra-right forces in the US, ruined numerous careers and lives – for nothing! The degree of 'threat’ attributed to the 'reds' proved to be wildly exaggerated, more a product of excited 'judgement' or shared delusion than accurate assessment. US intelligence agencies and ultra-right militarists fell victim to their own propaganda and the (dis)information warfare waged at the time.

Bereaved families hold 24-hour vigil in Whitehall

This is an 800 word report with 9 labelled photos and 6 labelled press clippings of the 24-hour vigil held by families bereaved by the war in Iraq. 3 photos of long-time protester Brian Haw are also included.

Londons longest surviving sqatted streets threatened with demolition

St. Agnes Place, Kennington, is London’s oldest squatted street. Two hundred people are threatened with imminent eviction and the twenty-something Victorian terraced houses are soon to be demolished.

Secret agents brief Bracks on 'seditious' protest

20-10-2005 14:39 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"Our intelligence suggests that certain individuals disaffected with Premier Bracks and other State and Territory leaders will gather at Parliament House at 1pm on Saturday 22 October," said an agency spokesperson.

Zapatistas Request Aid for Storm Victims

20-10-2005 09:20 | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

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Alternative Social Forum - Caracas, January 2006

19-10-2005 19:29 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* From Venezuela we extend an invitation to an international event of and for social movements in the struggle, as a more valid option to the bureaucratic spectacle the World Social Forum has become.

Sedition/definitions - KMA

19-10-2005 07:05 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Should we mention how concerned media magnates are in the age of free information? Blogs, free presses and numerous other independent media groups, all have ultra-right regimes jumpin'. They cannot tolerate real free speech and the 'voices' of protest and dissent. Congratulations to all the people of the world who cherish their rights and freedoms – we salute you! All your combined small voices have become a deafening roar – the new sedition laws in Australia are an indication that you have been heard to the extent that you require silencing – the nefarious forces are on the run!

Navigating the Multi-Dimensional Matrix

19-10-2005 04:19 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is the first chapter of my forth coming ebook with a partial listing of its contents. Those interested in this material are welcome to contact me.

Fasting in London in a world climate of hunger amid 'events' on poverty....

18-10-2005 14:39 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

MUHAMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY on the occasion of the official observance of the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

POVERTY in Britain under Tony Blair - Blunkett is failing

17-10-2005 19:49 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

A series of original reports including the rebuttals of the lies being put out this past week against the poor in Britain by the DWP 'Secretary of State' David Blunkett and by the so-called Opposition Tory MP Edward Leigh , Factual evidence ce fo how DWP has been violating UK laws and international and Universal human rights laws against the involuntarily poor in the UK under Tony Blair

HURRICANE STAN SEVERLY AFFECTS THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CIPO-RFM

HURRICANE STAN SEVERLY AFFECTS THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF CIPO-RFM
WE ARE PUTTING OUT AN URGENT CALL FOR HELP TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN STRUGGLE, HARMED BY HURRICANE STAN. WAYS TO HELP ARE THE FOLLOWING:

Spodden Valley asbestos - what is going on? ...

17-10-2005 12:08 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

• Urgent ‘secret’ council meeting to curb public rights to speak?
• The public deadline to ask council a question missed by a minute?
• Missing paragraphs in official answers?
• Still no ‘joined-up’ thinking?

Justice now! War criminal on the run in Tanzania

17-10-2005 10:12 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Agathon Rwasa, a Burundian Hutu-extremist and documented war criminal, has reportedly been denounced by his own forces for "gross human rights violations", and sacked. He is now reportedly on the run in Tanzania, where he has found protection in the past.

INTELLIGENCE REPORT: US "private military contractors" already in Venezuela

15-10-2005 22:25 | Social Struggles | World

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46388

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Intelligence agencies are revealing that US private military contractors, active in Colombia "under various contract umbrellas, including counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency" are building up to yet another attempted coup d'etat against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

New Tribes Mission sent packing from Venezuela

14-10-2005 09:53 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Yesterday the Venezuelan president Chavez announced that the controversial American Christian missionary group 'New Tribes Mission' were to stop their activities with the countries indigenous communities. The NTM's website states that the organisation is to be 'expelled from the country. [Chavez] did not indicate a specific time, but did say it would be done in an orderly manner.'